+ New: Linux version!
+ New: Added support for Maxwell render
+ New: Added support for Arnold render (OSX and Linux only for now)
+ New: Ability to use nCloth simulation with animated/deforming base mesh
+ New: Moved Windows install target directory outside of Maya
+ New: Mesh from strands operator on/off toggle button
+ New: Add edit guides as part of quick hair setup
+ New: When using selected faces for distribution adding hair from guides should reuse the same selection (optionally)
+ New: Added ability to not select back-facing guides
* Fixed: Root modification is not persisted in .ma scenes
* Fixed: Guides do not show in viewport if they were not initially generated by GuidesFromMeshNode
* Fixed: Planting a guide deselects edit guide shape
* Fixed: Planting a guide if there are no guides gives errors
* Fixed: Mesh from strands doesn't inherit UV coordinates from proxy coordinates
* Fixed: Deselection and crash when entering view with GuidesShape
* Fixed: Adding operators after GuidesFromGuideMesh with nCloth simulation below doesn't update the guide shape
* Fixed: Ground strands "'GuidesShape1.outMesh' cannot be found" error
* Fixed: Brush direction reverses when camera is rotated to look from down up in client scene
* Fixed: Sometimes it is impossible to select control points or roots
* Fixed: When roots were created and deleted in edit guides and scene is reopened roots cannot be moved
* Fixed: Root mode issues in Edit Guides Shape
* Fixed: Surface comb sink editing scale issue

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)